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I needed to take a short bit of time off from blogging while I worked out the details of interviewing, negotiating and relocating (at least me) to Seattle from Connecticut. I am now into my second week of work at the largest online retailer and the fire hose is blasting full force.

Being this big means that someone has already done a lot of thinking about how to make something massively scalable. Back in “the day” I remember pouring over the Principles of Transaction Programming book by Bernstein. I knew this stuff inside and out and it still serves me.

Given the massive need for scalability I have had to dust of some new/old theories. ACID is out BASE is in. Sure I have read about a bunch of these over the last few years, but it is different being at a place that is actually doing it.